Scientific references abounded in Breaking Bad, even if some of them went over the heads of the most ardent viewers. A few of those references were through symbolism in the field of chemistry. However ...

While the Allies raced toward Hiroshima, Germany pursued its own nuclear project under Werner Heisenberg. Yet the so-called ...

Professor Werner Heisenberg is speeding down the highway, when a cop pulls him over. The cop walks up to his car and asks, "Excuse me sir, do you know how fast you were going?" And Heisenberg responds ...

Devised by the German physicist Werner Heisenberg in 1927, the so-called uncertainty principle states that we cannot accurately know both the position and speed of a particle, such as a photon or ...

Werner Heisenberg's high school years were interrupted by World War I, when he had to leave school to help harvest crops in Bavaria. Back in Munich after the war, he volunteered as a messenger for ...

Say his name: Werner Heisenberg. He’s the real Heisenberg, the inspiration behind Walter White’s alter ego on Breaking Bad. Out of all of the famous scientists out there, why did Walt choose this ...

While Werner Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle might not appear in “Heisenberg,” the 2015 play does find ways to translate its tenets into everyday life — specifically, romantic relationships. “It’s ...